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If you are getting the sense that there is a whole lot of variation in the format, content and provenance surrounding essential library staff-specific information about the Affordable Care Act, then you have read the scene accurately! Before you throw up your metaphoric hands, reach for your mine pick and/or shovel, or take to your bed with an affordable headache, let's break this down into approachable chunks. Today we'll look at webinars:

I have been helping produce Infopeople webinars for several years, and have listened to some great presentations. But something amazing happened recently. This May, San Francisco Public Library's Karen Strauss and Leah Esguerra presented two webinars on Handling Challenging Situations: What Do I do Now?

A popular library rallying cry in these defunded times calls for developing methods "supporters" can use to advocate for "our" institutions. I see it in the way we want to draw attention to "values" we provide through readers' advisory promotions, collection maintenance directions, and programming targeting youth. We want to demonstrate how thoroughly we learned the marketing lessons we taught ourselves across the past decade.

Stephen Colbert's pointed neologism comes to mind as the US Census Bureau enlists increasingly sophisticated data sorts to give us a deeper view of numbers collected during the last decennial census. Not that the Bureau is asserting opinion as fact, but the fact is, statistics, by nature, can provide insight only on matters we think to ask of them.

George & Joan just finished presenting a very thought-provoking webinar on Libraries in a Post-Print World (the archive is available now). There waas more chat than any of us could keep up with during the webinar. We've added a link to a transcript of the text chat for those who would like to read through it. But we also think that there is more than enough content for a follow-up something. Another webinar? An online course?

Be sure to tune in this Thursday at noon for Infopeople's next webinar, Writing a Library Behavior Code, with Mary Minow. It starts at noon and will last an hour.

This webinar will benefit participants by helping them draft legally enforceable behavior codes. It offers guidance on reasonable behavior rules, distinguished from restrictions on user's free speech rights. What type of notice must the library give its users about its behavior policies? When is an appeals process required, and what should it entail?

If you didn't get a chance to attend the live event, or would just like to listen again (or get a copy of Andrew's excellent handouts), the archive for Effectively Managing Your Email is now available.

Attendance was great at today's Infopeople webinar on Best Practices in Helping Job Seekers in the Library. But if you missed the live event, you can listen to the archive and access the text chat transcript and other handouts here. Thanks to presenters Bernice Kao, Raye Oldham, and Megan Pittsley for a fascinating presentation!

If your library is doing exciting things for job seekers, let us know: we'd like to do a follow-up webinar in a few months!

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